Civil Rights Movements

This is a little earlier than the period you're studying (1940s), but this site discusses various groups that did not have equal rights during WWII, their status, and how that affected their feelings about supporting the war. This affected the way that the civil rights movement developed later on.

This website by the Library of Congress contains information about all the countries in the world. But if you look up the United States, it does a good job of giving the history of various groups, including Native Americans, African Americans, etc. This link will take you to the United States page, then scroll down and look under Decades of Change for links to: The Civil Rights Movement 1960-1980, The Women's Movement, The Latino Movement, The Native American Movement, The Counter-Culture and Environmentalism movement.

A super-brief history from a Syracuse University professor's class site.

A detailed article from The Guardian newspaper about the history, present, and possible future of the Black Lives Matter movement.

The Pew Research Center does really good, large-scale surveys of Americans' views and behavior. This page is about public reaction on social media to the Black Lives Matter movement.

TIME Magazine explains why the Black Lives Matter movement should be considered for their "most important 'person' of the year"

An interesting opinion article by a woman who was involved in the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s and disagrees with the methods o the current Black Lives Matter movement.

America's Library - Library of Congress. Cesar Chavez page.

Teaching Tolerance is a multicultural education and anti-discrimination organization, part of the Southern Poverty Law Center

From Library of Congress; lots of primary sources

The Society of Environmental Journalists is a group of over 1,500 professional journalists whose mission is to "strengthen the quality, reach and viability of journalism across all media to advance public understanding of environmental issues."

This interesting source from PBS collects timelines of the environmental movement from other sources around the Internet.

An interesting article from a public radio broadcaster about the history of both racism and cooperation between the African-American and Japanese-American communities since WWII, as both groups faced racism and discrimination.

This photo essay from The Atlantic magazine has primary source photographs of Japanese internment in the 1940s.